Hat-fastener.



PATENTED JUNE '30, 1908. S. W. BATES.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLICATION TILED MAR. 16, 1906. RENEWED FOVJE, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON W. BATES, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

HAT-FASTENER.

Application filed March 15, 1905, Serial No. 250,133.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON WV. BATES, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Portland, Cumberland county, State of Maine,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hat fastening device of that class wherein adouble pointed pin with enlarged or flattened points is held in aguide-or holder secured generally to the lower edge of the sweat band insuch a way that the pin may slide longitudinally through said guide tobe inserted into the hair to hold the hat in place and may be withdrawnwhen the hat is to be removed. These pins are usually made so that theycannot be re moved from the guide or holder but it is often desirable toremove them as in this manner one set of pins will serve for severalhats if each hat is provided with a set of sockets.

The object of my invention is to construct a hat fastening device ofthis class so that the pins may be readily taken out and put in andaccomplish this object by the hereinafter described device, in which thepin passes through a horizontally elongated slot cut away in the centerso that by pinching the points together the pin may be withdrawnalthough it will not pull out when a straight pull is exerted on it.

I illustrate my invention by means of the accompanying drawing in whichFigure 1 is a perspective of my device with the pin in position, Fig. 2is a central vertical section through the socket, showing the end of thepin in elevation, Fig. 3 is a rear view of the holder, Fig. 4 is a rearview of a modified form and Fig. 5 is a perspective of anothermodification.

Considering the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 A represents the doublepointed pin flattened vertically at its point a. B is a guide or platehaving perforated ears 6 by which it may be sewed to the edge of thesweat band or at the intersection of the crown and the brim. The pin isheld in a horizontally elongated opening, narrow enough at the ends sothat the flattened ends cannot be pulled out when the pin is in itsnormal position but cut away at some point between the ends so that theends may be withdrawn by being pinched together. I prefer to form theholder with a vertically elongated socket b which tapers from theSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Renewed November 25, 1907. Serial No. 403,771.

protected but cannot be withdrawn without pinching them together andpulling them out tl'irough the central opening.

In Fig. 4 I show a modification in which the socket b is cut away in thecenter forming a space 1) instead of having a recess struck out as shownin Fig. 1.

In Fig. 5 I show a form in which the plate C is not provided with arecessed socket but contains a simple elongated slot 0 cut away at c anddoes not provide for protecting the point.

It is obvious that the points of the pins may be enlarged otherwise thanby being flattened as for instance, by being upset to form a thickenedpoint or knob, the essential point being to form the ends of the pinsufficiently large so that they will not pass through the slot when thepin is in its outer or normal position but will pass through when thepoints are brought together to the wide portion of the slot.

I claim 1. The herein described hat fastening device consisting of aplate adapted to be secured to the lower edge of the sweat band andhaving a horizontally oblong opening therein, a double pointed pin withenlarged points passing through said opening and held by the spring ofthe pin normally against the ends of said opening, said opening beingnarrower than the pin points at its end but wide enough to allow of thewithdrawal of said points between the ends.

2. The herein described hat fastening device consisting of a plateadapted to be secured to the lower edge of the sweat band and having ahorizontally elongated socket therein tapering from the face of theplate backward, the rear end of said socket having a horizontallyelongated opening with its central portion wider than the ends and adouble pointed pin with enlarged points adapted to pass through saidopening and to be held normally in the ends of said opening by thespring of the pin, the central portion of said opening being ofsuflicient size to per mit the withdrawal of said points when they arepressed together.

3. The herein described fastening device I opening and to be heldnormally in the end 10 for hats consisting of a plate adapted to be ofsaid opening by the spring of the pin. secured to the lower edge of thesweat band Signed at Portland, Me this 13th day of and having ahorizontally elongated socket March 1905,

therein taperin from the plate backward and having a portid n cut awayin the center, the SOLOMON BATES rear end of said socket having ahorizontally Witnesses: elongated opening, a double pointed pin with F.W. HINOKLEY, enlarged points adapted to pass through said O, C. ABBOTT.

